FTII row: I&B team arrives in Pune, raises hope of solution

August 20, 2015 23:45

A three-member team of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry arrived here tonight, raising hopes of a possible resolution of the impasse at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), where the students'

strike for removal of TV actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan

as the chairman entered the 71st day.

Coming against the backdrop of unprecedented police crackdown on the campus and arrest of five students on Tuesday night, the delegation leader S M Khan (Registrar of Newspapers in India) said here, "The Ministry has constituted the committee to solve the issue at the earliest. We have come

with an open mind."

The committee members will be talking to the faculty, non teaching staff, students and the director tomorrow, he said.

"We will try to calm down the students as much as possible. I cannot comment on arrests," Khan told reporters, adding he was "optimistic about finding a solution".

The director Prashant Pathrabe was not under any pressure, he said, when asked whether Pathrabe filed the police complaint leading to arrest of students on instructions from the ministry.

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